FAMILY HADROSAURIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Hadrosauridae mean? 

• FAMILY HADROSAURIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY HADROSAURIDAE has 1 sense:

1. duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous

  Familiarity information: FAMILY HADROSAURIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY HADROSAURIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Duck-billed dinosaurs; upper Cretaceous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hadrosauridae; Hadrosauridae

Hypernyms ("family Hadrosauridae" is a kind of...):

reptile family (a family of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "family Hadrosauridae"):

duck-billed dinosaur; hadrosaur; hadrosaurus (any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic)

genus Anatotitan (genus of large duck-billed dinosaurs; late Cretaceous)

genus Corythosaurus (genus of duck-billed dinosaurs of late Cretaceous)

genus Edmontosaurus (duck-billed dinosaurs of Canada)

Holonyms ("family Hadrosauridae" is a member of...):

euronithopod; Euronithopoda; Ornithopoda; suborder Euronithopoda; suborder Ornithopoda (widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon))